Tune Up Your Intention Poetry Performance Workshop

Tune Up Your Intention Poetry Performance Workshop

OC Poetry Slam has teamed up with The Untold Bookstore and Cafe to bring the amazing Christian Perfas (Soul Stuf) to Orange County to provide a poetry performance workshop!

This workshop will go through:

• Performance breathing techniques
• Getting centered on the microphone
• How to range your tones and expressions for performance
• Slam Poetry Techniques
• How to be intentional when performing your poetry

Christian Perfas (also known by his stage moniker, Soul Stuf) is a spoken word poet and teaching artist originally born and raised in Upstate New York and currently based in The Greater Los Angeles Area. He has hosted, produced, and headlined in over 150 shows and programs, collaborating with the likes of The Poet's List, The Poetry Lab, Melrose Poetry Bureau, The Poetry Brothel, & The Los Angeles Poets' Society. He has also been featured on Voices In Power, All Def Poetry, Trap Poetry Jam, & Sofar Sounds and been invited to share poems at The Electric Forest, Comic Con International, The LA Times Festival of Books and The New York City Poetry Festival.

Soul Stuf is an alumni of the Spoken Literature Art Movement, Palms Up Academy, and The Community Literature Initiative (Season 8). He has taught writing and performance workshops for UCSB, The Los Angeles Public Library, WHAM Phoenix, and The Loud Mouth Poetry Jam in Visalia and is a performance coach and youth mentor at the poetry nonprofit, Get Lit- Words Ignite!

In addition, Soul Stuf is a decorated slam poet, winning competitions in Los Angeles, San Diego, San Jose, and Boston. He is a two time, Write Club Story Slam winner, a finalist in the iLLIST Slam Invitational, and is the reigning champion of the all Filipino, Katipunan Poetry Slam, sponsored by The Sunday Jump.

Lastly, Soul Stuf is a published author of Play: A Reclamation of Soul (released under World Stage Press) and even organized his own guerilla poetry tour on the west coast, spanning "10 cities, 20 shows, and 25 days on the road."

Host or Publisher OC Poetry Slam